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Product

Kobalt KM2040X-06 Item 506586

Category

Home & Garden

Report number

20181015-F3725-2147385006

Ownership age

About 29 months to failure (from purchase date when reported)

Failure type

Overheating

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20181015-F3725-2147385006. Matched catalog product: Kobalt KM2040X-06 Item 506586. Source model text: KM2040X-06. Incident: I was mowing my lawn with a Kobal KM2040X-06 electric lawnmower. The mower was operating loudly for a bit, and then began to smoke. I shut the mower off and turned it over to find two spots within the unit from which smoke was emanating. I discontinued use of mower.

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Official report number: 20181015-F3725-2147385006. Search that ID on SaferProducts.gov or match it in the CPSC public database export to verify this record.